The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.

Nothing is yet in its true form.

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.